Lawrence Ferlinghetti died of interstitial lung disease at his home in San Francisco, according to his children Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the acclaimed Beat movement champion, poet and publisher who co-founded the iconic City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, has died at age 101. The beloved bookseller who ...

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An exhibition of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s work is an ode to the great possibilities of the page by a 20th-century literary icon. In June, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State debuted a new building ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embody its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti was in his early 30s when he wrote a poem of hope and innocence about a penny candy store in New York and the magic to be found in jellybeans and licorice sticks, about the ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti co-founded City Lights 65 years ago, in 1953. “I’m there in spirit all the time,” he says of the beloved, world-famous bookstore on Columbus Avenue in North Beach. How about in ...

Ferlinghetti – the poet, the scholar, the champion of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl,” the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, the tireless critic of political ills – turns 100 on March 24. He ...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the famed poet who was placed on trial in the 1950s for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl, died Monday evening at age 101. City Lights Booksellers, the bookstore Ferlinghetti ...